[maxk42]

Even if you were to outlaw the selling of all this sort of data, you're not preventing major players like Google and Microsoft from collecting that data and using it internally. Not sure what the solution is here, but I think most people would like stronger privacy protections.

[musicale]

Preventing the ad bidding data leakage channel from Google to everyone else in the world would be a start at least.

[m463]

Doesn't googletagmanager deliver data as an exchange for putting javascript all over your site? sort of like surveillance stone soup...

[timeon]

> you're not preventing major players like Google and Microsoft from collecting that data

And every few minutes some data leaves my MBP to Apple databases hosted on Amazon cloud. I do not suspect Apple nor Amazon of anything but there are too many hands dealing with it - breach is just about 'when' not 'if'.

[musicale]

Which data? And how much of it would be readable by 1) Amazon and 2) Apple?

[ElevenLathe]

We don't know which data! It's encrypted and generated by closed source software on a closed hardware platform.

[DimmieMan]

I’m not sure if that future would be worse if laws were badly implemented.

Big players with a moat get to pull the ladder up and enjoy an obscene data advantage nobody else can even get a start on.(AI has a similar problem)

I think any right to privacy has to include non essential internal use with some very careful wording on what “essential” means.